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Marketers Push 'Healthy' Substance
To Japanese in Variety of Junk Food

By

Yumiko Ono Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated March 12, 1999 12:01 a.m. ET

P OTATO CHIPS , chocolate and cheap wine are health foods.

That's the message, at least, that a growing number of Japanese food companies are using to market drinks and snacks they have fortified with substances called polyphenols, reported in the Japanese media to potentially reduce heart disease.